Sleeve-adjuster.



No. 642,653. Patented Feb. 6, I900.

C. F. 'W'EBBEB.

SLEEVEADJUSTER.

(Application filed Nov. 6, 1899.)

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PATENT CHARLES F. 'WEBBER, O F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SLEEVE-ADJUSTER.

SPECIFICATION refillin part of Letters Patent No. 642,653, dated February 6, 1906.

Application filed November 6, 1899. Serial No. 736,045; (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES F. WEBBER, a citizen of the United States,'residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Sleeve-Adjusters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object to provide the sleeve of a shirt or similar garment with a simple, cheap, and convenient device for adjusting its length as maybe desired, either to better adapt it to the arm of the wearer or for the purpose of raisingthe cuffs to prevent them from becoming soiled.

To this end my invention consists in providing the sleeve of a shirt or similar garment witha pair of eyelet-holes arranged lengthwise of the sleeve at a suitable distance apart and combining therewith an independent detachable cord or tape looped through said eyelet-holes without being otherwise connected with the sleeve and provided with a clamping or fastening device whereby the length of the loop may be varied to adjust the length of the sleeve, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

a In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of a shirt having my improved sleeveadjuster applied thereto, one of the sleeves being represented as being drawn up thereby. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of a portion of a sleeve, showing the manner in which the adjusting-cord is applied thereto. Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of the adjusting-cord and its fastening device.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the body of a shirt or similar garment, and B B the sleeves thereof. Each of these sleeves is provided on the inner side or next to the body, preferably above the elbow, with two eyelet-holes a a, aranged lengthwise of the sleeve at a suitable distance apart, preferably about three inches. Through these eyeletholes is passed a loose or independent detachable cord or tape 1) with the free ends or pertions extending outside, which are then brought together to form aloop, said portions being held together by a suitable clamping or fastening device, preferably a friction clamping-hook D, secured to one end of the cord 1). This hook is preferably composed of spring metal bent to form a V-shaped operiing, into which the opposite portion of the cord is drawn, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, to cause it to be clamped tightly between the two portions of the hook, the cord being thus held tightly without liability of slipping, and in this manner the length of the loop thus formed can be readily adj usted at will to vary the distance between the eyelet-holes a a, and thus shorten or lengthen the sleeve, as may be desired by the wearer.

The cord or tape 1), not being sewed or otherwise permanently attached to the sleeve, is intended to be removed therefrom before the shirt is laundered, leaving the sleeve free from any attachments or additional parts which have rendered devices of this description as heretofore constructed objectionable.

The above-described sleeve-adjuster presents many advantages over those hitherto in use, among which may be enumerated the following: It is exceedingly simple and inexpensive, occupies very little space, and its location above the elbow on the inner side of the arm places it practically out of sight. The sleeve is not in any way injured by the eyelet-holes and is in condition for use either with or without the adjusting-cord. As the cord is readily removable, there is nothing added to the sleeve that renders it any more difficult to launder with the attachment than without. The cost of the entire attachment is so trifling that it practically adds nothing to the cost of the shirt. The adj usting-cords can be furnished at a very trifling expense and can be replaced in the sleeves at will by the wearer in a moment, as they are not sewed or otherwise permanently attached to the sleeves, as has hitherto been the case. When applied to ready-made shirts, of which there is usually but one length of sleeve to a size, it affords a means for adapting the length of the sleeve to the arm of a customer who might not otherwise purchase the shirt on account of the sleeves being too long.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The combination with the sleeve of a shirt or similar garment having eyelet-holes arranged lengthwise of the same, of a separate detachable cord or tape looped through said eyelet-holes Without being otherwise connected to the sleeve and free to move independently 0f the same, and provided at one end I with a fastening 01' clamping device to engage the free end, whereby the length of the loop may be varied to adjust or change the length of the sleeve, substantially as described.

Witness myhand this 3d day of November; A. D. 1899.

CHARLES F. WEBBER.

In presence of P. E. TEseHEMAeHER, L. I. BASFORD. 

